The Shore Where Inspiring Ideas Meet the World
📅 Saturday, 21 November 2026 | 📍Victoria Public Hall, Chennai | 🕓 2.30 PM – 6.30 PM
🗓️ Date: Friday, 23 October 2026
🕒 Time: 6.30 PM onwards
📌 Venue: IIT Alumni Centre, IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP), Chennai
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 21 November, 2026
🕒 Time: 2.30 PM – 6.30 PM
📌 Venue: Victoria Public Hall, Chennai
🎫 Limited Tickets
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 9 January, 2027
🕒 Time: To be announced
📌 Venue: To be announced
🎫 Limited Tickets
About TEDx Elliots Beach
TED is one of the world’s most influential platforms for bold ideas, breakthrough thinking, and transformative stories across science, leadership, culture, and innovation.
TEDx is the locally curated version – bringing the TED spirit to communities across the globe. With over 3,400 events annually and 8B+ video views, TEDx is where global brands, creators, students, scientists, and founders converge to spark action.
TEDx Elliots Beach is born in Chennai – India’s oldest modern city – where tradition meets ambition. Once called Elliots Beach and now affectionately “Bessie,” this coastline has witnessed stories unfold for generations.
We aim to spotlight the thinkers, builders, and quiet heroes who are shaping tomorrow through science, grassroots action, music, food, and culture.
Our theme for 2026 is Transcend, Shaping the Future.
Our theme for 2025 was Unveil, Celebrating Ideas hiding in plain sight that can scale, sustain, and spark systemic change.
Partnerships with strong visionary communities and legacy brands like IiTAIIC& TVS and many others in pipeline give us the edge to build a strong community platform that showcases bold ideas , inspiring insights that have the power to transform minds
TEDxElliotsBeach was born out of a love for finding voices ; inspiring voices that bring diversity, fresh perspective, and original lived experience to the stage. Our speakers are not chosen by chance or by influence. We look for people with inspiring ideas and messages that deserve to be amplified, and we curate every speaker through a careful, independent, merit-based process involving multiple stages of review, conversations, and talk development – so that every idea shared on our stage is truly an idea worth spreading.
TEDxElliotsBeach does not sell, auction, or offer speaking opportunities in exchange for money, gifts, sponsorships, favors, or any other consideration. No member of our organizing team , no individual, agency, or third party – is authorized to solicit or accept anything in return for a speaker slot.
If anyone claims to represent TEDxElliotsBeach and asks for money, gifts, sponsorship, or favors in exchange for facilitating or guaranteeing a speaking opportunity, that claim is false and unauthorized.
This platform belongs to the community it serves. If you encounter any such solicitation or misrepresentation, please report it to the TEDxElliotsBeach organizing team immediately, along with any supporting information.
Be part of a transformative evening with thinkers, makers, and performers – all in one room.
Limited Seats. First come, first served.
Incase of difficultly with the booking link – pls send us a mail with request at reachtedxElliotsBeach@gmail.com and we will revert incase tickets aren’t sold out yet
TED is a non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out as a platform bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader , today it is the largest global impact platform with voices from around the world serving as a library of lived ideas and wisdom and go to source of idea and inspiration for many around the world.
TEDx is a grassroots initiative, created in the spirit of TED’s mission to research and discover ‘ideas worth spreading.’ TEDx brings the spirit of TED to local communities around the globe through TEDx events. TEDx Elliots Beach endevours to bring this TED spirit to the local community in chennai and take the inspiring bold, ideas , local voices to global audience.